A federal judge in San Jose denied a preliminary injunction to the creator of the Wildfire Aware app, ruling that the term "AWARE" is too weak and crowded to support a trademark infringement claim against a government-focused competitor.
A federal judge in Arizona ordered GoDaddy to transfer two disputed domain names to BTQ Technologies and enjoined former employee Nicolas Roussy Newton from using the company's trade secrets, extending a temporary restraining order through June 12.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division emphasized that intellectual property protections must balance rewarding innovators with enabling competition in the concentrated seed market, filing a statement of interest in a Delaware case involving Corteva...
A Georgia-based canine semen bank is subject to personal jurisdiction in Oregon because its website expressly targeted an Oregon plaintiff and caused harm state, a federal judge ruled.
A federal judge in Manhattan granted summary judgment to Tod’s in a trademark infringement suit, ruling that the luxury brand’s Double T logo is distinct enough maker’s mark to avoid consumer confusion.
A federal magistrate judge in California granted Strike 3 Holdings' request to subpoena an internet service provider for a John Doe defendant's identity, but barred the plaintiff from serving the complaint or revealing the subscriber's name until further...
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California has granted Strike 3 Holdings’ request to bypass standard discovery rules to identify an anonymous BitTorrent subscriber, imposing strict confidentiality protections to shield the defendant...
A federal judge in Utah denied a preliminary injunction sought by Advice Media, LLC, ruling that MAG Mutual Insurance Company’s use of the name “MyAdvice” for its risk management platform is unlikely to confuse consumers with the plaintiff’s AI-driven...
U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield granted Strike 3 Holdings' motion for expedited discovery, permitting the plaintiff to subpoena a defendant's Internet Service Provider for the subscriber's name and address, while establishing strict privacy...
A Southern District of New York judge ordered payment processors to freeze the accounts of a Chinese manufacturer that continued selling products accused of infringing a garden hose patent, despite a prior preliminary injunction.
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York granted Toho Co., Ltd.’s motion for a preliminary injunction, halting the sale of unauthorized Godzilla merchandise by dozens of anonymous defendants across major e-commerce platforms.
A federal court held that Jones's newly designed "hinge-break" container — built specifically to sidestep an earlier injunction — still infringes Yukon Packaging's utility patent on insulated shipping containers.
A federal judge in Oregon struck portions of both parties' patent contentions Thursday, holding that neither side met the specificity requirements of the Local Patent Rules in a six-patent dispute over single-pass continuous lumber kilns.
A Utah gun-holster company is asking a federal judge to eliminate its competitor's invalidity defenses across six patents and establish the rival owner's personal liability before the case reaches a jury.
A Texas golf-cart company that adopted the name of a century-old battery brand must disgorge its profits, but a blanket ban on using the word "Trojan" outside the golf industry goes too far, a federal appeals court held.
A San Diego federal court has indicated it will enter partial default judgment for Mexican airline Volaris on trade name claims, but said trademark counts cannot proceed without a description of what the defendant entities actually sell.
A federal judge ruled that an arbitrator — not the court — must decide whether a class action accusing Figma of misusing intellectual property to train its AI products belongs in court at all.
A Northern District of California judge held that the patents describe a desired result rather than any specific technical method for achieving it.
A federal judge granted USA Weightlifting a permanent injunction and ordered the transfer of two domain names, resolving a trademark dispute with De Hoop Cartier.
A federal court in Texas has consolidated patent infringement suits filed by Piney Woods Mobility LLC against T-Mobile USA, AT&T and Verizon Communications, ordering that future filings be directed to the lead case while preserving individual cases for...